NEW MEASURES APPLICABLE TO GUAR GUM FROM INDIA

NEW MEASURES APPLICABLE TO GUAR GUM FROM INDIA
INFORMATION AS REGARDS ANALYTICAL REPORTS
The Commission Decision of 29 April 2008 imposing special conditions on guar gum
originating from India requires that all consignments of guar gum or products containing guar
gum at significant amounts originating in or consigned from India, which left India after 4
May 2008 and imported into the Community intended for human or animal consumption,
shall be accompanied by an original analytical report issued by a laboratory accredited
according EN ISO/IEC 17025 for the analysis of PCP in food and feed or by a laboratory that
is pursuing the necessary accreditation procedures and which has adequate quality control
schemes in place accompanying the consignment demonstrates that the product does not
contain more than 0.01 mg/kg pentachlorophenol (PCP). The analytical result must be
reported with the expanded measurement uncertainty. The analytical report shall be
endorsed by a representative of the competent authority from the country where the
laboratory is located.
As regards analytical reports endorsed by the competent authority of India, according the
findings of the FVO, the Vimta Labs, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh is the only laboratory
in India which fulfils the requirement of accreditation and/or having in place the
appropriate quality control schemes.
As regards the laboratories in the European Union, in order to reduce the administrative
burden, it was agreed that a list of laboratories within the EU authorised to perform the PCP
analysis would be established and put on the SANCO website. Analytical reports from these
laboratories are considered to be endorsed automatically by the competent authority of the
country where the laboratory is located.
Based upon the information received from the competent authorities a list of
laboratories from which the analytical reports are considered as automatically endorsed
has been compiled and is available in Annex.
Analytical reports from other laboratories in the EU need to be each
individually endorsed by the competent authority of the country where the
laboratory is located in order to be acceptable for authorisation of import
of guar gum or products containing guar gum originating from India !

ANNEX
Laboratories from which the analytical reports are considered to be
endorsed automatically by the competent authority of the country where
the laboratory is located.
BELGIUM
Fytolab C.V.B.A
Technologiepark 2/3
9052 Zwijnaarde-Gent
SGS-Belgium
Haven 407, Polderdijkweg 16
2030 Antwerpen
Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volksgezondheid (WIV) – Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique
(ISP)
Rue J. Wytsmanstraat 14
1050 Brussel
BULGARIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Bulgaria
CZECH REPUBLIC
State Veterinary Institute Prague (Státní veterinárnhi ústav Praha)
Address: Sídlištni 24
163 05 Praha 6
Czech Republic
Contact person: Jan Rosmus
Phone: +420 251 03 1 335
Fax: +420 25 1 03 1 335
E-mail: jan.rosmus@svupraha.cz
Institute of Public Health Ostrava - Centre of Hygienic laboratories
(Zdravotni ústav se sídlem v Ostravĕ: - Centrum hygienických laboratoří)
Address: Dobrá 240
739 51 Frýdek-Místek
Czech Republic
Contact person: Tomáš Ocelka
Phone: +420 558 601 452
Fax: +420 558 630 455
E-mail: tomas.ocelka@zuova.cz

DENMARK
Niels Ellermann
Laboratoriechef
Head of Laboratory
Laboratorium for Foder og Gødning Laboratory for Feed and Fertilizers
Plantedirektoratet
The Danish Plant Directorate
Tlf: (+45) 45 26 36 00 Tel: (+45) 45 26 36 00
Direkte (+45) 45 26 38 10 Direct: (+45) 45 26 38 10
e-mail: nel@pdir.dk
e-mail: nel@pdir.dk
Web: www.pdir.dk
Web: www.pdir.dk
GERMANY
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Germany
ESTONIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Estonia
GREECE
Name of the
Laboratory
Mass Spectrometry
and Dioxin Analysis
Lab.
National Centre for
Scientific Research
"Demokritos"
General Chemical
State Laboraty
(GCSL) Division of
Environment-
Laboratory
Address
153 10 Ag. Paraskevi,
Athens-GREECE
16, An. Tsocha Str. 11521
Athens Greece
Contact Person
Dr. Leondios Leondiadis,
Head of the Mass
Spectrometry and Dioxin
Analysis Laboratory
Tel. +30-210-6503610
Fax +30-210-6536873
e-mail:
leondi@rrp.demokritos.gr
Dr. Xaralampos
Alexopoulos
Tel: +30-210-6479427
Fax +30-210-6479156
e-mail: gxkenvironment@ath.forthnet.gr
SPAIN
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Spain

FRANCE
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of France
IRELAND
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Ireland
ITALY
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Italy
CYPRUS
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Cyprus
LATVIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Latvia
LITHUANIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Lithuania
LUXEMBOURG
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Luxembourg
HUNGARY
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Hungary
MALTA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Malta
THE NETHERLANDS
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of The Netherlands
AUSTRIA
Österr. Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
Kompetenzzentrum Rückstandsanalytik
Herr Dr. Friedrich FILA

e-mail: friedrich.fila@ages.at
Spargelfeldstrasse 191
A-1226 Wien
POLAND
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Poland
ROMANIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Romania
SLOVENIA
Zavod za zdravstveno varstvo Maribor / Institute of Public Health Maribor
Prvomajska 1
2000 Maribor
Slovenia
Mr. Stanko Brumen
stanko.brumen@zzv-mb.si
tel. +386 2 4500 100
fax: +386 2 4500 227
SLOVAKIA
No laboratories designated by the competent authority of Slovakia
FINLAND
Customs Laboratory
P.O.Box 53
FI-02151 ESPOO
tel.+350 20 492 3267/Kalevi Siivinen
kalevi.siivinen@tulli.fi
SWEDEN
Eurofins Food & Agro Sweden AB (Analycen)
Box 905
SE-531 19 Lidköping

SWEDEN
Tel: +46 510 88 700
UK
Martin Rose
Central Science Laboratory
Sand Hutton
York
YO41 1LZ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1904-462655
email: m.rose@csl.gov.uk